AIR→ Introducing AIR’s new Engagement Strategist
2020-02-11 Erin McGregor joined AIR as its new Engagement Strategist on January 21st. AIR’s CEO, Ken Ikeda, explains her new role as “a combination of member engagement, partnership development and oversight of our online platform, which is relaunching in ear …›
RadioPublic→ Gain: How James launched and promotes Filter Stories
2020-02-07 Welcome to Gain, an interview series where we ask podcasters about the backstories of the great work they’re creating. Today, we’re speaking with James Harper, creator and host of Filter Stories, a documentary-style podcast about coffee and people. …›
RadioPublic→ Audience growth isn’t an accident: Your podcast needs a web strategy
2020-01-31 The new wave of podcast audience development is through digital strategy. Watch our full twelve-part video series on web strategy for your podcast on Youtube. Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: Gain listeners by marketing your podcast. Your po …›
RadioPublic→ Build every part of your website to bring in new podcast listeners
2020-01-31 The new wave of podcast audience development is through digital strategy. Watch our full twelve-part video series on web strategy for your podcast on Youtube. Every web strategy begins with a podcast website. Why? It’s a space you own and operate yo …›
RadioPublic→ Communicating with your podcast listeners beyond audio
2020-01-31 The new wave of podcast audience development is through digital strategy. Watch our full twelve-part video series on web strategy for your podcast on Youtube. Speaking to your podcast audience is a given: you’re talking to them directly each and eve …›
RadioPublic→ An introduction to Google Analytics events found in RadioPublic Podsites
2020-01-27 Better understanding how people are interacting with your podcast website can help you narrow in on audience development and target your digital ad spend more effectively. There are four main event categories to pay attention to in your RadioPublic Po …›
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AIR→ Rate Guide: Editing and Content Strategy
2020-01-08 Everyone needs an editor. Yes, even you. Good editors bring an experienced ear to the whole story, and that can make a world of difference. And even if you know precisely what you’re doing, you also need someone with an experienced eye on the big pic …›
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The ProPublica Nerd Blog - ProPublica→ I Spent Three Years Running a Collaboration Across Newsrooms. Here’s What I Learned.
2019-12-13 by Rachel Glickhouse ProPublica’s Documenting Hate collaboration comes to a close next month after nearly three years. It brought together hundreds of newsrooms around th …›
AIR→ AIR x WHYY: Print to Radio Bootcamp
2019-12-10 Are you a Philly-based print reporter looking to venture into audio storytelling? AIR and WHYY are partnering to offer a weekend-long audio training bootcamp, January 11–12, that will provide print journalists with the skills they need to expand thei …›
RadioPublic→ Making a smart podcast player means making discovery and listener acquisition smarter: the all-new RadioPublic PRO embed player
2019-12-05 Easier podcast embeds. Smart podcast embeds. Podcast embeds everywhere! It’s been a rallying cry since the launch of our universal podcast embed player. We love it. And more importantly, you all love it. Listeners encounter our embed player on over 1 …›
INN Labs→ WordPress vs. Drupal: Which CMS is Best for You?
2019-12-03 WordPress and Drupal are both powerful Content Management Systems (CMS’s) and two of the most popular ones in use today. There are several key differences between the two, and selecting the best fit has more to do with the specific goals an …›
RadioPublic→ The Future of the Paid Listens program
2019-11-29 The RadioPublic Paid Listens program will conclude on November 30, 2019. Participating podcasters, head down to the end of the article to learn about your next steps. Last year we introduced Paid Listens to help jumpstart a new marketplace for in-app p …›
AIR→ Introducing: The Winter 2019 Full Spectrum Cohort
2019-11-22 We’re proud to welcome the Winter 2019 class to AIR’s Full Spectrum Storytelling Intensive. This group brings together makers from throughout the United States, and spans a wide range of interests including audio ephemera, communal listening experi …›
RadioPublic→ Podcast discovery is podcast visibility: Reach even more new listeners with RadioPublic PRO
2019-11-15 According to Edison Research’s 2019 Podcast Consumer Report, 73% of people who listen to podcasts discover new shows via web search. It’s part of why there’s such strength in your show having a web presence, like your RadioPublic landing page or …›
RadioPublic→ Grow your podcast audience, one website visitor at a time
2019-10-30 Move those web visitors to become listeners and (email) subscribers What if… there was a way to know that your web visitors were interested in hearing more from you? There’s a perfect moment for them to demonstrate that they want to hear mo …›
AIR→ We’re going to be at Third Coast this week! Find our table for swag and conversation.
2019-10-28 The entire AIR staff will be at Third Coast this week and we’re thrilled to meet (or reconnect) with AIRsters and beyond in attendance at the conference. Visit our table to meet our team and get to know our New Voices and AIR ambassadors who will …›
AIR→ Introducing: AIR’s 2019 Claiming the Rad in Radio Fellows
2019-10-28 October 28, 2019—In an effort to bring more sustainable support to women-identifying producers of color in media, AIR has paired five mentors with mentees through our inaugural Claiming the Rad in Radio Fellowship. We’re excited to announce the pai …›
AIR→ Meet this Member! | Elliott Peltzman
2019-10-24 Editor’s note: “Meet this Member!,” is an interview series that spotlights AIRsters doing outstanding work in the audio and media industry. This week we feature composer and audio producer, Elliott Peltzman. 1) Where are you based an …›
The ProPublica Nerd Blog - ProPublica→ Building a Database From Scratch: Behind the Scenes With Documenting Hate Partners
2019-10-23 by Rachel Glickhouse For nearly three years, ProPublica’s Documenting Hate project has given newsrooms around the country access to a database of personal reports sent to …›
AIR→ Rate Guide: Engineering and Composition
2019-10-22 Though radio transmitters have been broadcasting for more than a century, the emerging podcast industry is disrupting traditional models of audio production. Experienced audio engineers, recordists, sound designers, and composers all bring vital skil …›
INN Labs→ Do’s and Don’ts of WordPress Security
2019-10-04 With a great WordPress site comes great responsibility. WordPress offers journalists a distinguished platform to publish and distribute their content, but keeping your site safe and secure can seem like an overwhelming and daunting task. Luckily, …›
RadioPublic→ Team RadioPublic and Podfund are on the road this fall
2019-10-01 RadioPublic and Podfund are popping up all over this October and November. Here’s where you can see, hear, and speak with members of the team throughout the fall. RadioPublic buttons and stickers, ready for all you wonderful podcasters! Heading t …›
Want to find time for more enterprise reporting? Dive into analytics.
Here’s an idea to steal and adapt: Analytics don’t have to clash with journalistic values. Here’s how the Buffalo News used analytics to reinforce its mission.
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The ProPublica Nerd Blog - ProPublica→ Making Collaborative Data Projects Easier: Our New Tool, Collaborate, Is Here
2019-09-11 by Rachel Glickhouse On Wednesday, we’re launching a beta test of a new software tool. It’s called Collaborate, and it makes it possible for multiple newsrooms to work …›
INN Labs→ NewsMatch Pop Up Best Practices
2019-08-30 There have been some changes since our last blog post around Pop Up best practices for NewsMatch and other special campaigns, so we're releasing an updated guide. Here are some general recommendations and best practices for using popups as part of …›
INN Labs→ Introducing our newest Largo redesign: Workday Minnesota
2019-08-16 Workday Minnesota began publishing in 2000 with support from Minnesota’s labor community and was the first online labor news publication in the United States. Since then, Workday has won many awards and has grown to be a trusted source for news …›
The ProPublica Nerd Blog - ProPublica→ Working Together Better: Our Guide to Collaborative Data Journalism
2019-08-14 by Rachel Glickhouse Today we’re launching a guidebook on how newsrooms can collaborate around large datasets. Since our founding 11 years ago, ProPublica h …›
The ProPublica Nerd Blog - ProPublica→ Making Sense of Messy Data
2019-08-07 Angeliki Kastanis, Associated Press I used to work as a sound mixer on film sets, noticing any hums and beeps that would make an actor’s performance useless after a long …›
INN Labs→ Announcing Largo 0.6.4
2019-07-19 This week's release of updates to the Largo WordPress theme is all about improvements for images, pull quotes, and media. It also brings improved compatibility and editorial functions for the WordPress Block Editor. This release includes: An exa …›
“It was hard to take Nazi memes all that seriously when they were sandwiched between sassy cats”
Syracuse’s Whitney Phillips — scholar of the darker corners of Internet culture, author of “The Oxygen of Amplification,” last seen here offering this dire observation/prediction last winter — has a new paper out in Social Media + Society that might make be a bracing experience for some Nieman Lab readers. When we think of the…
INN Labs→ SRCCON 2019 – A first-timer’s recap
2019-07-15 Miranda with Jonathan Kealing (INN’s Chief Network Officer) and INN Members Candice Forman from Outlier Media and Asraa Mustufa from Chicago Reporter. We had a blast meeting and chatting in person! I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect going in …›
German fact-checkers are alert for conspiracy theories and dark humor surrounding Merkel’s tremors
The post German fact-checkers are alert for conspiracy theories and dark humor surrounding Merkel’s tremors appeared first on Poynter.
Sold! Randa Duncan Williams buys Texas Monthly, the latest legacy brand to enjoy billionaire ownership
There’s a party going on deep in the heart of Texas. Texas Monthly is the latest in a series of newsrooms to be scooped up and bolstered by the deep and patient pockets of legacy media-loving billionaires. Randa Duncan Williams, heiress of an oil and g…
INN Labs→ Largo site wins Cleveland Press Club magazine website award
2019-06-21 Ben Keith and Lucia Walinchus with Eye on Ohio's first-place award for magazine website. The award plaque. We're happy to relay the news that INN Member Eye on Ohio won First Place Magazine Website in the Press Club of Cleveland's ann …›
Touring KCAW, Sitka Alaska’s Raven Radio
For most people living outside Alaska, if they’ve heard of Sitka it’s because they’ve been on a cruise ship that stopped there. This small city of just under 9,000 people in the Southeast of the state, near the capital of Junea…
The ProPublica Nerd Blog - ProPublica→ “Your Default Position Should Be Skepticism” and Other Advice for Data Journalists From Hadley Wickham
2019-06-10 by Hannah Fresques and Meg Marco So you want to explore the world through data. But how do you actually *do* it? Hadley Wickham is a leading developer of open …›